The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

All are used to make fireworks? (wild guess)

I like it! But, no.

quickbeam

All magnetic.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

quickbeam wrote: »

All magnetic.

That's it.

quickbeam

Which two Presidents of the US have been impeached?

New Home

Nixon and Clinton? (Showing my ignorance, here, no doubt)

quickbeam

Clinton, yes.
Nixon, no.

feargale

Johnson and Clinton

quickbeam

I think you have it, but just clarify which Johnson, as there's been two.

feargale

quickbeam wrote: »

I think you have it, but just clarify which Johnson, as there's been two.

Andrew of course. Butter wouldn't melt in Lyndon's mouth.

quickbeam

Correct!!

feargale

How many times would Rhode Island fit into Alaska? If the exact number isn't given after ten answers I will award it to the nearest.

looksee

100

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

500. I've been to both but never bothered to measure them.

Ted_YNWA

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:

500. I've been to both but never bothered to measure them.

You didn't measure :eek: what kind of holidays do you go on




150

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

You didn't measure :eek: what kind of holidays do you go on




150

If only it were for holidays -

I'll raise it to 600

New Home

873!

quickbeam

I'd say much, much higher - 2500?

IrishZeus

Ill go higher again and say 3000.

New Home

Ok then, I'll raise my bid to 8173, if 873 isn't enough. :pac:

OldGoat

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Although they evolved from a toothed ancestor, birds no longer have teeth.

So is an "egg tooth" not a real dentine type tooth? I always took it as read that the egg tooth was just a real tooth growing in an odd place.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Francium and caesium

How many times would Rhode Island fit into Alaska? If the exact number isn't given after ten answers I will award it to the nearest.

I'll opt for 2 - just to cover the low end of the spectrum of guesses.

looksee

Without ever having given it much thought, I was under the impression the egg tooth was simply a bit of extra beak, not tooth at all?

OldGoat

looksee wrote: »

Without ever having given it much thought...

^^^This is me on most topics. For example I'm currently re-reading 20,000 leagues under the sea and have only just realised that the distance is a measure of journey travelled rather than depth attained

When I first read it I had no notion what a league was and simply assumed it was a measure of depth and have never corrected that in my mind till now.

quickbeam

So, eight guesses so far. Two more needed, I guess before feargale will reveal, so to move things on - I'll guess 8000.

New Home

Then I'm going to say 42, as a third (or fourth guess). That's bound to be right!

quickbeam

I've looked up the answer. Will I give it so we can carry on, or will we wait for Feargale?

looksee

Or we could throw in another question just to keep things moving, no harm in a couple of questions going - anyone got one?

feargale

Wait.

Srameen gets the gold medal for 500.
Srameen also takes the silver medal for 600.

New Home wrote: »

Ok then, I'll raise my bid to 8173. :pac:

- Wooden Spoon. :pac:

Correct answer: 425.

quickbeam

Yeah, I was surprised it was so low. Alaska just seems so-oooo big.

Also surprised that Rhode Island was the smallest state. I thought that was Hawaii. And Hawaii isn't even the second smallest either - there's like, 7 smaller than it. Good question.

feargale

We're supposed to have two questions running simultaneously here, but at present we don't have one. Here goes:

In 1900 Galway City stunned the Irish political world by electing a Unionist M.P. to Westminster. The successful candidate eventually died without issue. Name the famous man who was his nephew and heir.

New Home

Oscar Wilde? (Shot in the dark)